Jeff Ware gave a presentation on IT strategies for Catering By Michaels, a catering company founded in 1980. He discussed how the company uses IT for communication, transactions, research, marketing, and operations. He emphasized the importance of data management, connectivity, and regular backups using both online and offline methods. The company's IT infrastructure includes servers, DVRs, PBXs, internet connections, and a backup storage area network. Only one non-critical application is hosted in the cloud due to concerns about security, costs, and loss of control. Ware also discussed the company's PCI compliance standards.
Many businesses need to cut costs in order to protect their bottom line. Using a landline telephone system can be expensive if your company is using many lines for connecting employees. If you add in long distance phone calls to co-workers in another state or country, the costs can add up. Fortunately, high speed internet is becoming cheaper and more widespread. Why not get rid of your telephone company and make your phone calls over the internet? Learn more by visiting our blog: http://bit.ly/1qqlyEC
Many smaller businesses strapped for cash see cutting edge technology as an unnecessary expense. They may think the hardware and software they do business with still gets the job done. Plus, some employees don’t want to spend the time learning new processes upgraded software will require. However, according to a recent Microsoft survey, 90% of respondents said they would stop doing business with a company that uses outdated technology, citing privacy and security as a big concern. In addition, using outdated technology results in reduced productivity and ultimately, lower profits. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/1xOTMn6
Technology Update: The More Things Change, the More Fun It GetsMichael Carnell
This presentation was delivered to the Institute of Management Accountants in Charleston, South Carolina. It includes information on making sure your current IT position is sable as well as making plans for the future.
This document provides tips and advice for small businesses on how to guard their data and systems from various threats and disruptions. It discusses how many businesses experience disruptions each year and may not survive if offline for more than 5 days. It recommends providing regular cybersecurity training to employees and using simple, integrated solutions to protect data and systems from viruses, ransomware, lost or stolen devices. Specific tips include enabling encryption, remote wiping, VPNs, strong passwords, testing backups, and monitoring for identity theft. The overall message is that end-to-end protection is needed across networks, email, wireless systems, endpoints, servers and data to fully secure the business.
This short slide deck listed the main pros and cons of three major options for IP management systems. The author who has worked with IP management professionals from hundreds of organizations also gave tips for each option.
Concur provides integrated travel and expense management solutions to help companies and employees control costs and save time. Over half of Fortune 500 companies use Concur's solutions. Concur's solutions automate travel booking and expense reporting in an easy-to-use system. More than 18 million people in over 100 countries use Concur's products and services. Concur's solutions help companies save time and money by streamlining travel booking and expense reporting.
Concur provides integrated travel and expense management solutions to help companies and employees control costs and save time. Over half of Fortune 500 companies use Concur's solutions. Concur's solutions automate travel booking and expense reporting in an easy-to-use system. More than 18 million people in over 100 countries use Concur's products and services. Concur's solutions help clients save time and money from travel procurement to payment and reporting.
This article provides 7 tips for job interviews: interview for multiple jobs to increase chances; develop a compelling personal story highlighting skills and experience; tailor your story specifically for each job; come prepared with research on the company and position; anticipate common questions and have thoughtful answers prepared; ask questions during the interview to show interest in the role and company; focus on finding common ground and interests with the interviewer.
Many businesses need to cut costs in order to protect their bottom line. Using a landline telephone system can be expensive if your company is using many lines for connecting employees. If you add in long distance phone calls to co-workers in another state or country, the costs can add up. Fortunately, high speed internet is becoming cheaper and more widespread. Why not get rid of your telephone company and make your phone calls over the internet? Learn more by visiting our blog: http://bit.ly/1qqlyEC
Many smaller businesses strapped for cash see cutting edge technology as an unnecessary expense. They may think the hardware and software they do business with still gets the job done. Plus, some employees don’t want to spend the time learning new processes upgraded software will require. However, according to a recent Microsoft survey, 90% of respondents said they would stop doing business with a company that uses outdated technology, citing privacy and security as a big concern. In addition, using outdated technology results in reduced productivity and ultimately, lower profits. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/1xOTMn6
Technology Update: The More Things Change, the More Fun It GetsMichael Carnell
This presentation was delivered to the Institute of Management Accountants in Charleston, South Carolina. It includes information on making sure your current IT position is sable as well as making plans for the future.
This document provides tips and advice for small businesses on how to guard their data and systems from various threats and disruptions. It discusses how many businesses experience disruptions each year and may not survive if offline for more than 5 days. It recommends providing regular cybersecurity training to employees and using simple, integrated solutions to protect data and systems from viruses, ransomware, lost or stolen devices. Specific tips include enabling encryption, remote wiping, VPNs, strong passwords, testing backups, and monitoring for identity theft. The overall message is that end-to-end protection is needed across networks, email, wireless systems, endpoints, servers and data to fully secure the business.
This short slide deck listed the main pros and cons of three major options for IP management systems. The author who has worked with IP management professionals from hundreds of organizations also gave tips for each option.
Concur provides integrated travel and expense management solutions to help companies and employees control costs and save time. Over half of Fortune 500 companies use Concur's solutions. Concur's solutions automate travel booking and expense reporting in an easy-to-use system. More than 18 million people in over 100 countries use Concur's products and services. Concur's solutions help companies save time and money by streamlining travel booking and expense reporting.
Concur provides integrated travel and expense management solutions to help companies and employees control costs and save time. Over half of Fortune 500 companies use Concur's solutions. Concur's solutions automate travel booking and expense reporting in an easy-to-use system. More than 18 million people in over 100 countries use Concur's products and services. Concur's solutions help clients save time and money from travel procurement to payment and reporting.
This article provides 7 tips for job interviews: interview for multiple jobs to increase chances; develop a compelling personal story highlighting skills and experience; tailor your story specifically for each job; come prepared with research on the company and position; anticipate common questions and have thoughtful answers prepared; ask questions during the interview to show interest in the role and company; focus on finding common ground and interests with the interviewer.
This document contains recipes for four push pop desserts:
1) Mexican Seven-Layer Push Pop with refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, olives, scallions layered in a pop mold and topped with crushed tortilla chips.
2) Korean Salmon Sushi Push Pop layered with rice, salmon, red pepper, and scallions in a pop mold.
3) Tiramisu Push Pop layered with vanilla wafer cookies and mascarpone mousse in a pop mold, garnished with a coffee bean.
4) The mascarpone mousse recipe is included using egg yolks, sugar, gelatin, Marsala wine, and mas
The document summarizes the process of developing new menu items, including research, development, and execution. It discusses researching customer and industry trends to find new ideas. The development process involves testing recipes, tracking costs, and standardizing documentation. Finally, the execution involves selling the new items, moving them to full production, and training staff. The presentation provides examples from Catering By Michaels, including their large recipe database and strategies for pricing and reducing food costs.
The document discusses the recruitment process which includes identifying job vacancies, preparing job descriptions, searching internal and external candidates, coordinating interviews, conducting reference checks, and making final hiring decisions. It also outlines common external recruitment sources like advertisements, campus placements, employment agencies, employee referrals, and walk-in applicants. Key stages involve screening applications, assessing candidates through tests and interviews, and ultimately selecting and offering positions to candidates.
Concur Travel & Expense provides an integrated web-based and mobile solution for travel and expense management that helps organizations save time and control costs. The solution allows for streamlined travel booking, expense reporting, and payment while enforcing corporate policies. It offers features like electronic receipts, mobile apps, and reporting to provide end-to-end travel and expense visibility and management.
Ben Holmes at TechChill Baltics, February 12th, 2013TechChillBaltics
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that has historically made over 100 investments. The presentation discusses opportunities for Nordic and Baltic startups in the current tech ecosystem, which is experiencing exceptional growth in cloud, mobile, and social sectors. Key opportunities include building globally-focused, product-centric startups that leverage open platforms and capital-efficient models to access global markets while mitigating risks from clones and regulations. The Nordic/Baltic region provides an attractive alternative to Silicon Valley for tech startups with access to talent and increasing investor interest, though the home market is smaller and fragmented across Europe.
Chanel is a French luxury fashion house founded in the early 20th century by Coco Chanel. It specializes in haute couture, ready-to-wear clothing, accessories like handbags, and luxury goods like perfumes and cosmetics. The brand is known for its timeless elegance and blending of masculine and feminine styles. Some of Chanel's most iconic products include the Chanel suit, quilted handbags, little black dresses, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. The brand continues to uphold its reputation for luxury and classic French fashion under its signature interlocking Cs logo.
Falcon.io | 2021 Trends Virtual Summit - Data PrivacyFalcon.io
Two years after Cambridge Analytica, personal data is still at the forefront of the conversation. Consumers all vehemently care about what companies do with their data. Privacy is on everyone’s mind (not just the older, wealthier bracket). The pandemic has only accelerated these concerns, which marked 2020 as a significant year for data management. As businesses face new technological challenges amid COVID-19, the topic of privacy has drawn an increasingly bright spotlight. This sensitivity regarding data privacy has only been growing — and companies are responding accordingly.
SECUDE is an innovative provider of IT security solutions for SAP customers. It focuses on data-centric security and classification with its Halocore solutions. Halocore allows users to identify sensitive data extracted from SAP, apply data loss prevention controls, and protect documents with rights management. This helps mitigate security risks, reduce compliance costs, and prevent data breaches and theft. The presenters discuss how rising security threats, lack of preparedness, and stringent compliance regulations are pushing companies to find new ways to secure their SAP data.
GWAVACon 2015: GWAVA - Why Unified Archiving Pays Off…GWAVA
This document summarizes a presentation about unified archiving. It discusses how employees communicate through a variety of platforms and locations. It notes that digital business data is growing 40-60% each year. The presentation outlines the value of unified archiving in improving productivity, ensuring compliance and reducing costs. It provides details on how unified archiving can retain email, mobile data, and social media content. It emphasizes that managing data efficiently has become essential.
Technology Megatrends Reshaping IT: What’s Your Migration PathFadi Semaan
This IDC study is a deep dive analysis in:
1) The shift in infrastructure implementation - new trend
2) Migration challenges & cost from legacy to cloud & hybrid cloud
3) Datacenter management cost comparison - legacy infrastructure vs new one
4) Benefit of transition into Cloud...
Presented by: David Senf
Vice President, Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions
Big Data Monetisation
PSD were pleased to host a breakfast at the Royal Horseguards Hotel discussing the subject of what companies can do with their data to monetise it and bring the debate to the CEO's office.
Leading the discussion, and presenting his portfolio of work in this area was Mike Fishwick.
Mike has recently led the Business Insights programme at Telefonica Digital, and has an almost unique viewpoint on the application of data science in this area.
Attending were technology leaders from a broad range of sectors all of whom are investigating what they do with the ever increasing torrent of data that they are managing.
For the latest IT & Business Change jobs & salary survey information, go to:
http://www.psdgroup.com/information_technology.aspx
Chris Eldridge - MD
The document discusses issues for boards of directors to consider regarding information technology (IT). It recommends that boards provide oversight of IT as IT is critical to most organizations and carries risks. It also recommends using formal IT governance frameworks to align IT with business strategy and ensure accountability. The document provides examples of current and emerging IT trends and issues for boards to discuss with management.
IT Trends through the Lens of Buyer Personas CompTIA
The document discusses trends in technology from the perspective of different buyer personas. It summarizes CompTIA research reports covering topics such as retail technology trends, data management challenges, mobility, and skills gaps. Each section profiles a different buyer persona (e.g. a retail CEO, a financial CIO, a non-profit IT manager) and highlights relevant findings from CompTIA research reports to their concerns and priorities. The document aims to apply a "buyer-first" approach to discussing technology trends.
This document discusses the growing need for enterprise-wide remote access and mobility solutions. It outlines some of the key business drivers, such as increased productivity and business continuity. It then evaluates some popular existing approaches like VPNs, server-based computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and finds that they do not scale cost-effectively to support large numbers of remote users. A new appliance-based remote desktop access solution is introduced that aims to provide secure, high-performance remote access across many device types in a more cost-effective way than traditional options.
This presentation provides information and tips to assist accountants and audits in introducing cloud technologies into their business. Auditflow - www.auditflow.com - offers a range of innovative audit compliance solutions. Mediasphere - www.mediasphere.com.au - builds websites and client portals for accountants and auditors globally.
Contact Tony Carrucan on tonyc@mediasphere.com.au for more information
Cisco provides an overview of connecting the remaining 99% of the world that is still unconnected. The presentation discusses how the Internet has evolved from connecting people to now connecting people, processes, data, and things through technologies like mobility, cloud, and video. Cisco sees an opportunity to create insights, increase efficiency, expand markets through an "Internet of Everything" and estimates the business value of this at $14.4 trillion over 10 years. Cisco aims to solve customers' challenges through intelligent networks and ensure customer success with their market position, R&D investments, acquisitions, partners and expertise.
This is the presentation I gave in the recent LTE Asia event (http://asia.lteconference.com) in Singapore. The Philippines has tremendous potential for broadband!
Service Assurance for Modern Apps - BigPanda NA SNO - April 2015 - Dan TurchinPeopleReign, Inc.
Service Assurance for modern apps. What's required to deliver strategic IT services in an age when apps and infrastructure are more complex than ever and the volume of data they generate is growing by orders of magnitude each year? Gone are the days when we could rely on people to solve machine data problems.
Protecting endpoints from targeted attacksAppSense
This document discusses strategies for protecting endpoints from targeted attacks. It begins with an overview of the increasing threats facing organizations from malware and cyber attacks. It then outlines five principles for an effective endpoint security strategy: 1) get organizational endpoints in order through vulnerability management and application control, 2) focus on protecting data rather than infrastructure on unmanaged devices, 3) utilize thin clients and cloud-based solutions, 4) implement a zero-trust approach to authentication, and 5) maintain visibility into endpoint activity. The document recommends implementing application control, patching vulnerabilities, deploying recommended security practices, improving authentication, and integrating network and endpoint security controls. It emphasizes continuing to shift focus to securing unmanaged devices by decoupling protection from infrastructure.
This document contains recipes for four push pop desserts:
1) Mexican Seven-Layer Push Pop with refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, olives, scallions layered in a pop mold and topped with crushed tortilla chips.
2) Korean Salmon Sushi Push Pop layered with rice, salmon, red pepper, and scallions in a pop mold.
3) Tiramisu Push Pop layered with vanilla wafer cookies and mascarpone mousse in a pop mold, garnished with a coffee bean.
4) The mascarpone mousse recipe is included using egg yolks, sugar, gelatin, Marsala wine, and mas
The document summarizes the process of developing new menu items, including research, development, and execution. It discusses researching customer and industry trends to find new ideas. The development process involves testing recipes, tracking costs, and standardizing documentation. Finally, the execution involves selling the new items, moving them to full production, and training staff. The presentation provides examples from Catering By Michaels, including their large recipe database and strategies for pricing and reducing food costs.
The document discusses the recruitment process which includes identifying job vacancies, preparing job descriptions, searching internal and external candidates, coordinating interviews, conducting reference checks, and making final hiring decisions. It also outlines common external recruitment sources like advertisements, campus placements, employment agencies, employee referrals, and walk-in applicants. Key stages involve screening applications, assessing candidates through tests and interviews, and ultimately selecting and offering positions to candidates.
Concur Travel & Expense provides an integrated web-based and mobile solution for travel and expense management that helps organizations save time and control costs. The solution allows for streamlined travel booking, expense reporting, and payment while enforcing corporate policies. It offers features like electronic receipts, mobile apps, and reporting to provide end-to-end travel and expense visibility and management.
Ben Holmes at TechChill Baltics, February 12th, 2013TechChillBaltics
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that has historically made over 100 investments. The presentation discusses opportunities for Nordic and Baltic startups in the current tech ecosystem, which is experiencing exceptional growth in cloud, mobile, and social sectors. Key opportunities include building globally-focused, product-centric startups that leverage open platforms and capital-efficient models to access global markets while mitigating risks from clones and regulations. The Nordic/Baltic region provides an attractive alternative to Silicon Valley for tech startups with access to talent and increasing investor interest, though the home market is smaller and fragmented across Europe.
Chanel is a French luxury fashion house founded in the early 20th century by Coco Chanel. It specializes in haute couture, ready-to-wear clothing, accessories like handbags, and luxury goods like perfumes and cosmetics. The brand is known for its timeless elegance and blending of masculine and feminine styles. Some of Chanel's most iconic products include the Chanel suit, quilted handbags, little black dresses, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. The brand continues to uphold its reputation for luxury and classic French fashion under its signature interlocking Cs logo.
Falcon.io | 2021 Trends Virtual Summit - Data PrivacyFalcon.io
Two years after Cambridge Analytica, personal data is still at the forefront of the conversation. Consumers all vehemently care about what companies do with their data. Privacy is on everyone’s mind (not just the older, wealthier bracket). The pandemic has only accelerated these concerns, which marked 2020 as a significant year for data management. As businesses face new technological challenges amid COVID-19, the topic of privacy has drawn an increasingly bright spotlight. This sensitivity regarding data privacy has only been growing — and companies are responding accordingly.
SECUDE is an innovative provider of IT security solutions for SAP customers. It focuses on data-centric security and classification with its Halocore solutions. Halocore allows users to identify sensitive data extracted from SAP, apply data loss prevention controls, and protect documents with rights management. This helps mitigate security risks, reduce compliance costs, and prevent data breaches and theft. The presenters discuss how rising security threats, lack of preparedness, and stringent compliance regulations are pushing companies to find new ways to secure their SAP data.
GWAVACon 2015: GWAVA - Why Unified Archiving Pays Off…GWAVA
This document summarizes a presentation about unified archiving. It discusses how employees communicate through a variety of platforms and locations. It notes that digital business data is growing 40-60% each year. The presentation outlines the value of unified archiving in improving productivity, ensuring compliance and reducing costs. It provides details on how unified archiving can retain email, mobile data, and social media content. It emphasizes that managing data efficiently has become essential.
Technology Megatrends Reshaping IT: What’s Your Migration PathFadi Semaan
This IDC study is a deep dive analysis in:
1) The shift in infrastructure implementation - new trend
2) Migration challenges & cost from legacy to cloud & hybrid cloud
3) Datacenter management cost comparison - legacy infrastructure vs new one
4) Benefit of transition into Cloud...
Presented by: David Senf
Vice President, Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions
Big Data Monetisation
PSD were pleased to host a breakfast at the Royal Horseguards Hotel discussing the subject of what companies can do with their data to monetise it and bring the debate to the CEO's office.
Leading the discussion, and presenting his portfolio of work in this area was Mike Fishwick.
Mike has recently led the Business Insights programme at Telefonica Digital, and has an almost unique viewpoint on the application of data science in this area.
Attending were technology leaders from a broad range of sectors all of whom are investigating what they do with the ever increasing torrent of data that they are managing.
For the latest IT & Business Change jobs & salary survey information, go to:
http://www.psdgroup.com/information_technology.aspx
Chris Eldridge - MD
The document discusses issues for boards of directors to consider regarding information technology (IT). It recommends that boards provide oversight of IT as IT is critical to most organizations and carries risks. It also recommends using formal IT governance frameworks to align IT with business strategy and ensure accountability. The document provides examples of current and emerging IT trends and issues for boards to discuss with management.
IT Trends through the Lens of Buyer Personas CompTIA
The document discusses trends in technology from the perspective of different buyer personas. It summarizes CompTIA research reports covering topics such as retail technology trends, data management challenges, mobility, and skills gaps. Each section profiles a different buyer persona (e.g. a retail CEO, a financial CIO, a non-profit IT manager) and highlights relevant findings from CompTIA research reports to their concerns and priorities. The document aims to apply a "buyer-first" approach to discussing technology trends.
This document discusses the growing need for enterprise-wide remote access and mobility solutions. It outlines some of the key business drivers, such as increased productivity and business continuity. It then evaluates some popular existing approaches like VPNs, server-based computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and finds that they do not scale cost-effectively to support large numbers of remote users. A new appliance-based remote desktop access solution is introduced that aims to provide secure, high-performance remote access across many device types in a more cost-effective way than traditional options.
This presentation provides information and tips to assist accountants and audits in introducing cloud technologies into their business. Auditflow - www.auditflow.com - offers a range of innovative audit compliance solutions. Mediasphere - www.mediasphere.com.au - builds websites and client portals for accountants and auditors globally.
Contact Tony Carrucan on tonyc@mediasphere.com.au for more information
Cisco provides an overview of connecting the remaining 99% of the world that is still unconnected. The presentation discusses how the Internet has evolved from connecting people to now connecting people, processes, data, and things through technologies like mobility, cloud, and video. Cisco sees an opportunity to create insights, increase efficiency, expand markets through an "Internet of Everything" and estimates the business value of this at $14.4 trillion over 10 years. Cisco aims to solve customers' challenges through intelligent networks and ensure customer success with their market position, R&D investments, acquisitions, partners and expertise.
This is the presentation I gave in the recent LTE Asia event (http://asia.lteconference.com) in Singapore. The Philippines has tremendous potential for broadband!
Service Assurance for Modern Apps - BigPanda NA SNO - April 2015 - Dan TurchinPeopleReign, Inc.
Service Assurance for modern apps. What's required to deliver strategic IT services in an age when apps and infrastructure are more complex than ever and the volume of data they generate is growing by orders of magnitude each year? Gone are the days when we could rely on people to solve machine data problems.
Protecting endpoints from targeted attacksAppSense
This document discusses strategies for protecting endpoints from targeted attacks. It begins with an overview of the increasing threats facing organizations from malware and cyber attacks. It then outlines five principles for an effective endpoint security strategy: 1) get organizational endpoints in order through vulnerability management and application control, 2) focus on protecting data rather than infrastructure on unmanaged devices, 3) utilize thin clients and cloud-based solutions, 4) implement a zero-trust approach to authentication, and 5) maintain visibility into endpoint activity. The document recommends implementing application control, patching vulnerabilities, deploying recommended security practices, improving authentication, and integrating network and endpoint security controls. It emphasizes continuing to shift focus to securing unmanaged devices by decoupling protection from infrastructure.
This document discusses how IT leaders can better communicate with executives. It finds that executives care most about business imperatives, benefits realization, unplanned outages, risk absorption, and systems critical to the business. IT leaders should focus on discussing strategy, costs, uptime, feasibility, security, and innovation. The document also emphasizes that executives are more concerned with critical service uptime during key business times than overall availability percentages. It stresses communicating cybersecurity risk by assuming sophisticated attacks will succeed and focusing on detection speed. Finally, it provides tips for IT leaders to connect with executives through their assistants, impromptu meetings, shared travel, and persistent engagement.
The white paper discusses five principles for designing global IT infrastructure to support distributed enterprises:
1) Distance doesn't matter - employees expect to collaborate in real-time regardless of location.
2) Applications and data must be available everywhere through consolidation but also decentralized access.
3) Knowledge and data must be easily shared and managed across the enterprise.
4) Business operations must be continuous and resilient to failures or disruptions.
5) All employees, regardless of location, require equal access to applications and resources.
WAN optimization solutions are described as the means to tie together distributed infrastructure by providing LAN-like application performance anywhere through acceleration and scaling capabilities for mobile users, branch offices,
This document provides tips on how organizations can get better value from their IT investments and spending. It discusses evaluating current IT spending and functions, outsourcing non-core IT activities, moving to cloud-based solutions, standardizing equipment and software, and focusing on people-based activities to improve processes and productivity with IT. The key messages are that organizations should review legacy systems and processes, consider outsourcing, leverage new technologies like cloud computing and mobile working, and focus on training staff and using IT to enable improvements rather than just reducing costs.
Fast IT Mariano O'Kon, Cisco Live Cancun 2014Felipe Lamus
The document discusses the concept of Fast IT, which is described as the IT operating model needed for the Internet of Everything (IoE) era. It summarizes findings from a survey of over 1,400 IT leaders and interviews with experts on how IoE is increasing IT complexity and the challenges IT organizations face in enabling business innovation. The key to Fast IT is simplifying infrastructure, creating intelligent services, and securing everything dynamically to fuel business growth while liberating IT from costs and management burdens.
Fraser Henderson hosted a webinar about cloud computing. The webinar covered:
- Definitions of cloud computing and how it provides flexible, low-maintenance computing services over the internet.
- The history and enabling technologies that led to cloud computing.
- Common uses of cloud services like storage, backup, disaster recovery, email, and software as a service.
- Considerations for moving to the cloud like costs, limitations around network connectivity and vendor lock-in.
- Emerging areas like edge computing, integration of cloud services, and how cloud services can support collaboration.
- The future of cloud computing in areas like machine learning, serverless architectures, and everything connecting to the network.
Big Data - it's the big buzz. But is it dead on arrival?
In this presentation Daragh O Brien looks at the history of information management, the challenges of data quality and governance, and the implications for big data...
Sales, operations & the comedy of collaborating with your spouse!Catering By Michaels
The document provides a summary of lessons learned from kindergarten that can be applied to sales and operations in the events industry. Some key lessons include: making a great first impression just like greeting a kindergarten class; the importance of relationships and teamwork like in a kindergarten classroom; and bringing events to life through hands-on experiences just as kindergarten lessons are brought to life. Ethics and fairness are also stressed, noting these concepts were learned in kindergarten. For operations, branding, risk management, and technology trends are discussed alongside kindergarten transitions to using technology in lessons.
Spicy tuna maki rolls are made by laying a sheet of nori seaweed on a bamboo mat. Cooked sushi rice is spread evenly on the nori, leaving a 1/2 inch strip bare at the bottom. A row of spicy tuna mix and cucumber is placed 1 inch from the bottom. The nori is tightly rolled from bottom to top and sliced into 8 pieces. The spicy tuna mix contains diced tuna, spicy mayonnaise, and orange flying fish roe. Sushi rice is prepared by cooking Japanese rice with water, then mixing in seasoned rice vinegar and sugar.
The document discusses making sushi in-house for catering businesses. It provides an agenda that covers why make sushi, getting started, safety, key ingredients, ways to sell sushi, varieties of sushi that can be made, and a demonstration. The speaker has 30 years of experience overseeing day to day operations of a catering company. The company does over $1 million in events annually, focuses on food quality, and sells over $140,000 of sushi per year. Making sushi in-house can be done with minimal investment and equipment and allows caterers to offer a healthy and profitable menu item.
David Sandler gave a presentation on designing chaferless buffets for hot food. The presentation covered reasons for using chaferless buffets such as clients disliking the dated look of chafers and buffets being out of style. It also discussed types of heat sources that can be used like direct, indirect, canned fuel, steam, butane and torch options. Finally, it outlined different chaferless serving piece options including marble, modern buffet systems, grill pards, surrounds, wire griddles, panini presses, soup kettles, sauté pans, skillets, ceramic bakeware and professional cookware.
This document outlines a presentation by Jeff Ware on push pop crazes for catering. It discusses why push pops are popular, tips for making them, different types including sweet, savory and beverages. It also covers ways of displaying and assembling push pops and includes examples of specific push pop recipes like cupcake, pudding, frozen cocktail and sushi push pops. The document promotes downloading the full presentation from an online slidesharing site.
This document provides an overview of catering from Jeff Ware, who has over 30 years of experience in the catering industry. It discusses key aspects of catering such as pricing models, client expectations, and tools for caterers. Specifically, it outlines that Catering By Michaels has 90 full-time employees, focuses on food quality, and has faced challenges with facility design limiting efficiency. It also notes management tools like Catersearch.com's database that catalogs vendors, recipes, and photos to help caterers with consistency, forecasting, and selling based on true costs.
This document contains notes from a presentation by Jeff Ware on channel planning and content strategy for Catering By Michaels, a catering company founded in 1980. It discusses defining target customers, measuring ROI across social media channels like Facebook, Twitter and blogs, developing a content plan, and tracking analytics. The goal is to build the business in new markets, share its brand story, and attract media coverage to increase website traffic and regain customers.
This document discusses proper recipe management for catering businesses. It covers topics such as tracking costs, understanding different types of recipes, maintaining consistency, and using a database system. Maintaining accurate recipes is important for consistency, pricing, purchasing, and forecasting trends. The document also provides examples of food cost percentages and how to calculate food costs and yields based on ingredients and expected losses.
The document discusses the importance of forms and systems for a catering company. It provides details about the catering company such as its history starting as a hot dog stand, current operations with 90 full-time employees, and challenges with facility design. The document outlines areas that need forms and systems including hiring, HR, sales, and operations. It lists examples of specific forms used for jobs, training, payroll, and event planning. The conclusion emphasizes how forms and systems provide accountability, consistency, communication, and standardization.
The document discusses ideas for developing new passed hors d'oeuvres for catering events. It provides examples of innovative small plate ideas including lamb chops with wild berry demi glaze and haricot verts wrapped in bacon. The document also discusses factors to consider for preparation, packaging, presentation styles and serving methods like disposable plates, skewers and cones.
The document discusses best practices for pre-packing, packing, shipping, and labeling items for catering events. It recommends creating organized warehouse systems using proper tools and packaging materials. Labels should clearly identify event details, item contents, and delivery locations. Packing methods should ensure food safety and quality during transportation. Following these tips can improve efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance customer satisfaction.
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2. IT in your business
◦ The value of data
◦ The value of connectivity
Backups
◦ Planning for the worst
The cloud is not always the answer
PCI-DSS
Q&A
3. Started with CBM at 14
Electrical Engineering/
Computer Science
Background
Worked at CNN & theatres.
Learned other aspects of live
events.
Fell in love with food thanks
to this job
4. Founded in 1980 as a hot
dog stand
Catering spun off into
separate company in 1991
Peak revenue of $17 Million
90 FT & 130 PT Employees
45% Full Service / 35% On
Premise / 20% Delivery
5. Largest event $1.3 million
Focused on food quality
above all else
Poor facility design
challenges efficiency
Non Chicago address is a
marketing struggle
6. 10 Servers
3 DVRs
2 PBXs
4 T1s & 1 50/10 Cable
GFS Backup
◦ Tapes – Offline
◦ SAN – Online
Only 1 critical app in the
cloud
PCI DSS Compliant
19. 1. Security & Privacy
2. Dependency (Loss of control)
3. Cost
4. Decreased Flexibility
5. Knowledge and Integration
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21.
22. Build and Maintain a Secure Network
Protect Cardholder Data
Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
Implement Strong Access Control Measures
Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Maintain an Information Security Policy
23. To download a copy of this presentation, go to:
slideshare.net/CateringChicago
Jeff Ware
jware@CateringByMichaels.com | (847) 966-6555
Editor's Notes
Your business data is growingDigital data is rapidly growing at a rate of 80% each year, and businesses like yours are responsible for maintaining 85% of that information.Data loss happensHard drive crashes, spilled drinks, and accidental file deletion can occur at any time and put your company’s future in jeopardy. In fact, 93% of all companies that suffer significant data loss close down within 5 years!
What's the value of your organization's data?The ability of business and IT managers to answer that question directly correlates to the success of their company's business continuity and data recovery efforts. The answer is difficult to provide, given the massive amounts of data coursing through organizations and the fact that the value of data changes frequently and quickly in today's unpredictable, highly competitive, and increasingly regulated business environment.
In the world of mainframes and microchips it's called data backup or data recovery and it can mean the difference between a slight computer setback and living through your own electronic apocalypse.Let's face it; our computers are a bigger part of life than ever before. We shop, work and play using computers. They've replaced stereos, encyclopedias, even the mailman. They've become journals, photo albums and canvases for our art.But computers aren't perfect. Files become corrupt, motherboards malfunction, CPUs call it quits taking our precious data with them."My computer won't crash." You've had your computer this long and haven't had problems so far why worry about computer backup now? Data backup is about protecting your data's future, but with computers, it isn't if you crash, it's when you crash.In today's high-tech world of sneaky spyware and venomous viruses, you are in more danger of data loss than ever before. Computer viruses grew by as much as 11% percent during 2003 alone.*Like tires on your car, the electronic circuits your computer rides on will eventually wear down and blow out. When this happens, you can either grieve at your loss or simply restore your data with data backup software.
1. Mission Critical: Frequently used, immediate availability, significant and immediate financial impact, significant and immediate operational impact, eventual compliance impact.2. Business Critical: Regularly used, reasonably available, significant long-term financial impact, significant operational impact over time, eventual compliance impact.3. Essential: Periodically used, available within defined timeframe, potential long-term financial impact, probable operational impact over time, probable compliance issues.4. Consequential: Occasionally used, available within extended timeframe, possible but not likely financial impact, possible operational impact over time, probable compliance issues.5. Non-Critical: Rarely used, limited availability, unlikely financial impact, doubtful operational impact over time, potential compliance impact.6. Inconsequential: Used only on request, limited availability, no financial impact, doubtful operational impact over time, potential compliance impact.7. Disposable: Never used, no need for availability, no financial impact, no operational impact, no expected compliance impact.Mission-critical data might include quarterly expense figures and a list of addresses of key suppliers - or it might not. Each organization will define the value of its data in a different way. The management team for a national restaurant chain, for example, might be perfectly fine with being able to recover transaction data from its sole New York location within two to three days of an outage or disaster. A Wall Street investment firm, on the other hand, would likely define its transaction data as mission critical. The financial services firm and the restaurant chain face different types of regulatory demands - all of which should be reviewed in the data valuation process.
Full BackupFull backup is a method of backup where all the files and folders selected for the backup will be backed up. When subsequent backups are run, the entire list of files and will be backed up again. The advantage of this backup is restores are fast and easy as the complete list of files are stored each time. The disadvantage is that each backup run is time consuming as the entire list of files is copied again. Also, full backups take up a lot more storage space when compared to incremental or differential backups. Incremental backupIncremental backup is a backup of all changes made since the last backup. With incremental backups, one full backup is done first and subsequent backup runs are just the changes made since the last backup. The result is a much faster backup then a full backup for each backup run. Storage space used is much less than a full backup and less then with differential backups. Restores are slower than with a full backup and a differential backup. Differential backupDifferential backup is a backup of all changes made since the last full backup. With differential backups, one full backup is done first and subsequent backup runs are the changes made since the last full backup. The result is a much faster backup then a full backup for each backup run. Storage space used is much less than a full backup but more then with Incremental backups. Restores are slower than with a full backup but usually faster then with Incremental backups. Mirror BackupMirror backups are as the name suggests a mirror of the source being backed up. With mirror backups, when a file in the source is deleted, that file is eventually also deleted in the mirror backup. Because of this, mirror backups should be used with caution as a file that is deleted by accident or through a virus may also cause the mirror backups to be deleted as well. Full PC Backup – Image In this backup, it is not the individual files that are backed up but entire images of the hard drives of the computer that is backed up. With the full PC backup, you can restore the computer hard drives to its exact state when the backup was done. With the Full PC backup, not only can the work documents, picture, videos and audio files be restored but the operating system, hard ware drivers, system files, registry, programs, emails etc can also be restored.
Local BackupLocal backups are any kind of backup where the storage medium is kept close at hand or in the same building as the source. It could be a backup done on a second internal hard drive, an attached external hard drive, CD/ DVD –ROM or Network Attached Storage (NAS). Local backups protect digital content from hard drive failures and virus attacks. They also provide protection from accidental mistakes or deletes. Since the backups are always close at hand they are fast and convenient to restore. Offsite BackupWhen the backup storage media is kept at a different geographic location from the source, this is known as an offsite backup. The backup may be done locally at first but once the storage medium is brought to another location, it becomes an offsite backup. Examples of offsite backup include taking the backup media or hard drive home, to another office building or to a bank safe deposit box.Beside the same protection offered by local backups, offsite backups provide additional protection from theft, fire, floods and other natural disasters. Putting the backup media in the next room as the source would not be considered an offsite backup as the backup does not offer protection from theft, fire, floods and other natural disasters. Online BackupThese are backups that are ongoing or done continuously or frequently to a storage medium that is always connected to the source being backed up. Typically the storage medium is located offsite and connected to the backup source by a network or Internet connection. It does not involve human intervention to plug in drives and storage media for backups to run. Many commercial data centres now offer this as a subscription service to consumers. The storage data centres are located away from the source being backed up and the data is sent from the source to the storage data centre securely over the Internet. Remote BackupRemote backups are a form of offsite backup with a difference being that you can access, restore or administer the backups while located at your source location or other location. You do not need to be physically present at the backup storage facility to access the backups. For example, putting your backup hard drive at your bank safe deposit box would not be considered a remote backup. You cannot administer it without making a trip to the bank. Online backups are usually considered remote backups as well. Cloud BackupThis term is often used interchangeably with Online Backup and Remote Backup. It is where data is backed up to a service or storage facility connected over the Internet. With the proper login credentials, that backup can then be accessed or restored from any other computer with Internet Access.
Using multiple destinations is smart because it protects you from various kinds of failures (dead hard drives, flaky Internet connections) that might make any single destination unreachable. Personally, I like to use both a local hard drive (for speed) and a remote destination (for security).sometimes computers and humans make mistakes, and sometimes things break. You don't want to find out about a backup problem after you've lost data. To make sure everything's running smoothly (and to practice so you won't have to panic in an emergency), try restoring a few random files from time to time.
Don’t need to talk about the Pros – they are nearly unlimitedThere are a few Cons
1. Fear of unavailability. As the industry of cloud computing is still evolving, most vendors are still upstarts and it will be hard to determine whether they will be around a long time. There are also fears of takeovers and buyouts. Because of this, the integrity and availability of your data may still be in question.2. Data ownership and data exchange. When your provider kicks the bucket or you decide to terminate your service, what would happen to your data then, will you be able to take it back and any copy erased from the provider’s databases? If you decide to change providers, how easy would it be to transfer all your data, will they be compatible with the new provider’s systems? These are certainly valid concerns and should be greatly considered when choosing vendors.3. Control. Since clients have little or no control of how their data is being handled, all they can do is trust their providers and maybe ask a few questions, which will most likely be answered by “Don’t worry, it’s in good hands”.
PCI DSS is the global data security standard adopted by the payment card brands for all entities that process, store or transmit cardholder data. It consists of common sense steps that mirror security best practices.
Build and Maintain a Secure Network1. Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data2. Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parametersProtect Cardholder Data 3. Protect stored cardholder data4. Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networksMaintain a Vulnerability Management Program5. Use and regularly update anti-virus software or programs6. Develop and maintain secure systems and applicationsImplement Strong Access Control Measures7. Restrict access to cardholder data by business need to know8. Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access9. Restrict physical access to cardholder dataRegularly Monitor and Test Networks10. Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data11. Regularly test security systems and processesMaintain an Information Security Policy12. Maintain a policy that addresses information security for all personnel